Weather-strip



S. A. PIPB1j`L- Weather-Strip.

No. 227,051. Patented April 27, 1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL A. PIPER, OF NEWTON, (UPPER FALLS,) MASSAGIEIUSETTS.

WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,051, dated April 27, 1880. Application filed February 1G, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. PIPER, of Newton, (Upper Falls, )ofthe county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Weather Guards or Strips for Doors 5 and I do ,hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a vertical section of the lower part ofa door and one of 1n y improved weatherguards applied thereto, the surrounding frame and the threshold being also shown in said gure. Fig. 2 isa side view, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of the weather guard or strip. Figs. 4 and 5 are side views of one of the stripsupporters, Figs. 6 and 7 being side views of the tlan ged carrier and adj Listing-screw of said supporter. Fig. 8 is an under-side View ofthe door, showing the arrangement therewith of the weather-strip and its sustaining devices. Fig. 9 is an end view of the door.

My presentim proved weather-guard in some respects is analogous to those represented in the United States Patents Nos. 150,785 and 153,909, granted to me in the year 1874. It differs, however, in its construction and that of its supporting and adjusting devices. The lguard, as represented in the accompanying drawings, is made in sections hinged together, in order to enable it to fit or adapt itself to the upper surface of the threshold as said surface may become worn down.

In Fig. l of the drawings the door is represented at A, and as chanibered in its lower part to receive the guard B and its supporting devices, the said guard being constructed in sections a a., arranged end to end,r or thereabout, and hinged or jointed together at their abutting ends. rIhese sections are grooved lengthwise, each to receive a strip, c, of indiarubber or other suitable flexible or elastic material, which projects down from them in manner as shown, and extends across the joints of the two sections, such strip to bear upon the threshold d of the door-frame C.

From the opposite edges of the said strip B studs c e project and enter inclined grooves f, made in cylindrical supporters D D, which straddle the strip and are arranged vertically in tubular or flanged carriers or socket-pieces E E, formed as represented, and slotted vertically, as shown at g, to receive the weather strip or guard. Each of the said socket-pieces has a tlange, h, at its lower end, which, on the socket-piece being inserted upward within the door, is let in flush with the lower edge of the door, and is secured to the door by screws, as shown at c' in Fig. S.

Furthermore, there is connected with the flange, so as to be capable of being revolved therein without at the same time being moved lengthwise, a screw, K, which screws up into an ear, l, projecting laterally from the stripsupporterD, sustained by the carrier or socketpiece E. 0n applying a screw-driver to the nicked head of the 'screw K and revolving the screw the supporter D may be adjusted vertically within its socket-piece E, from which it will be seen that the adj ustment of the weatherstrip is effected by means of the screw, and not by manual power and by clamp-screws, which was the case with the weather-strip as shown in the aforesaid Patent N o. 153,909.

Fig. l of the drawings exhibits the weather strip or guard as having three sets of supporting and adjusting devices, and also as having the operative spring m attached to the medial supporter D and extending down therefrom and into anotch, n, made in the weather-guard.

In the act ofclosing the door the said guard at one end will be forced against an abutment or screw, o, in the door-frame C and be moved longitudinally, the guard at the same time being moved downward toward and upon the threshold by means of the studs e and the inclined grooves j'fin the supporters D, a counter movement of the weather-strip resulting through the action of the spring on the door being opened.

Instead of inserting the weather-strip and its sustaining devices, as described, in the door itself, they may be arranged within a cleat or molding, to be fastened to the door and to project from it, in which case, if desirable, each of the carriers of the strip-supporters may have a tlange extending upward from it to aid in fastening it in place.

Vhat I claim as my invention is as follows, viz:

rIhe weatherguard supporter D, provided with the tubular and anged carrier E, and with the adjusting-screw K applied to both, substantially in manner and to operate as set forth.

SAMUEL A. PIPER.

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